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The previous update on the Critter Stack roadmap was in early March. I spent some time yesterday writing and thinking about the road map for the Critter Stack. Call this post a mix of me sorting out what I personally think happens next, but mostly asking for feedback and input on these thoughts. Wrapping up … Continue …
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Starting in Visual Studio 18.5, you can create and build Visual Studio extensions (VSIX) using an officially supported SDK-style project. This brings VSIX projects into the modern build and deployment pipeline, improving incremental build performance and making the build → deploy → debug workflow more reliable. Install …
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39 projects, 6 finalists, and a weekend of IDE-native AI in San Francisco. Earlier this month, we brought developers together in San Francisco for the inaugural JetBrains x Codex Hackathon. Over the course of one weekend, teams built 39 IDE-native AI projects, from which six finalists emerged. The event highlighted …
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Build a complete state pattern real-world example in C# with a document workflow system featuring approval states, transitions, and guard conditions. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/29/state-pattern-realworld-example-in-c-complete-implementation
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In this post, you'll learn how Vanguard built their Virtual Analyst solution by focusing on eight guiding principles of AI-ready data, the AWS services that powered their implementation, and the measurable business outcomes they achieved. Link to article: …
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This post shows you how to deploy a serverless MCP proxy on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime that gives you a programmable layer to implement proper governance, controls, and observability aligned with an organization's security policies. Link to article: …
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This tutorial was written by an external contributor. As a developer, logging is usually the first technique that you reach for when something goes wrong in your application. You add a few log statements at the start and end of a function and in the exception handlers, and then you get a basic picture of […] Link to …
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Introduction When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has changed in how the Power Pages …
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OpenAI outlines a five-part action plan for strengthening cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age, focused on democratizing AI-powered cyber defense and protecting critical systems. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/cybersecurity-in-the-intelligence-age
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Learn how C# enum flags work. Understand the [Flags] attribute, bitwise OR and AND, HasFlag(), and when to use a flags enum over a regular enum in .NET. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/28/c-enum-flags-combining-values-with-bitwise-operations
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As organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organizational boundaries becomes essential. With the release of A2A Protocol v1.0 and updated support in the Microsoft Agent Framework, you can now connect and …
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is becoming more agentic with every release. This update brings cloud agent integration front and center, letting you start remote coding sessions without leaving the IDE. Custom agents now support user-level definitions that travel with you across projects, C++ code editing tools for …
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Azure Service Bus is one of the most widely used messaging services for building event-driven applications on Azure. When you use Azure Functions with a Service Bus trigger in batch mode, your function receives multiple messages at once for efficient, high-throughput processing. But what happens when one message in the …
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In this post, we explore what it takes to migrate a traditional text agent into a conversational voice assistant using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic. We compare text and voice agent requirements, highlight design priorities for different use cases, break down agent architecture, and address common concerns like tools and …
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April continues the strong momentum for the SharePoint Framework and the broader Microsoft 365 extensibility ecosystem. Over the past month, we have been making steady progress across the SPFx roadmap, refining delivery plans, connecting with the community in person, and preparing the next wav Link to article: …
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Created 10 years ago, SkiaSharp has long been the backbone of cross-platform 2D graphics in .NET. It powers graphics rendering across mobile, desktop, web, and server targets with consistent, high-quality output using the open-source Skia engine. SkiaS Link to article: …
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In the world of modern .NET development, applications need to maintain high throughput, scale rapidly, and most importantly, deliver performance and responsiveness in all circumstances. This becomes increasingly difficult as functional complexity increases, data sources expand, and we contend with ever-evolving …
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Today, we are excited to announce the day zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. In this post, we walk through the model architecture and key capabilities of Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, explore the enterprise use cases it unlocks, and show you how to deploy and run inference using …
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Two valid ways of writing code. One place to own it. Quick version for AI-news-tired readers: press here There are two ways developers create code now: We don’t think one is better than the other. Our goal is to ensure both workflows can coexist inside JetBrains IDEs without hindering each other. In practice, this …
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Say you want to have the functionality of a reader/writer lock, but have it work cross-process. The built-in SRWLOCK works only within a single process. Can we build a reader/writer lock that works across processes? For convenience, let's say that you want to support a maximum of N simultaneous readers, for s Link to …
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